April.17.01: Light For The Day - "A Daily Prayer" -- Psalm 69:13 (NLT) "But I keep right on praying to you, LORD, hoping this is the time you will show me favor. In your unfailing love, O God, answer my prayer with your sure salvation." ------------------------- "A Daily Prayer" O help me, Lord, to grow each day  In such an even, balanced way  That a rich glory may shine through  Each word and deed I do for you.  Give me a love that reaches others  Never minding race and colors.  Grant me patience to be kind  To each living thing I find.  Help me, Lord, to understand  And reach out a ready hand.  As I strive to be well-groomed,  May my SOUL be also pruned.  Cut the branches that won't bear,  Make my countenance more fair.  Speak through me to those in need;  Use me, Lord, their souls to feed.  Dear Lord, when I press my WILL  With new wine, my spirit fill.  Help me not to go astray  But ever to Thy bosom stay.  Use my lips and use my mind  All of me that you can find.  Use me to show forth Your glory,  Ever speaking forth the story.  Just USE me, Father, is my prayer  As I daily breathe earth's air.  And Lord, as I now say Amen  May we soon commune again. -- Ivie Bozeman ---------------- -- Psalm 55:16,17 (NLT) "But I will call on God, and the LORD will rescue me. 17 Morning, noon, and night I plead aloud in my distress, and the LORD hears my voice."